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29 thoughts on “Stay classy, Indiana!”

Wisconsin is pretty good at sucking as well. Our piece of shit governor hates women and thinks we should be paid less. He keeps trying to defund planned parenthood and all other women’s health initiatives. I’m actually shocked and terrified that he hasn’t tried to pass an RFRA here.

Ugh I feel your pain. I’m from Virginia…home of Ken Cuccinelli so take your pick. Oh and the transvaginal ultrasound thing the former governor Bob McDonnell (currently in prison for fraud) tried to implement a few years ago was pretty bad.

Well, not to be a dick but I’m from Ontario, Canada. No matter how bad things sometimes get around here (and our prime minister is a premium douche-canoe), at least they tend not to be as bad as they are down south.

I am from North Dakota… that should be all you need. Last year they tried to pass a measure, Measure 1, that would protect the right to life “at every stage of development”. Thankfully it didn’t pass but it would have not only effectively ended fertility treatment in ND but also caused an issue with the ability to end life support for loved ones. It was a shameful time.

So, given that I live in Chicago, I have quite a few friends/family members/co-workers/enemies who willingly choose to live in NW Indiana because of lower taxes. (Most or all commute to jobs in IL – does that say something about employment rates in IN?) And whenever stuff like this happens – and other stuff, like their roads aren’t plowed after a blizzard – I just want to be like, how are those lower taxes working out for you? As I sit smugly in Chicago, buying ALL THE ALCOHOL on Sunday and driving on my plowed roads and planning my gay wedding. AND owning a gun, which I can do in Chicago now. But I can’t carry it, so there’s that. And, like, our city and state’s debt is crazy high and all of our politicians just go straight to jail during or after their term ends and you can’t swing a dead cat in Chicago without getting shot by a gang member.

Our voters banned gay marriage twice (proposition 22 in 2000 and proposition 8 in 2008). We passed an imitative to curtail bilingual education written by someone with no educational background (prop 207), affirmative action (prop 209), and restricted basic human rights for undocumented immigrants (prop 187). At least the circuit courts reversed some of these or put an injunction on enacting some of the worst parts.

Okay, please erase that or let me edit! I can’t believe I wrote know instead of no!!!

And I forgot to say that my state is California. Super liberal on the coasts but it’s a different state politically as you get into Orange County, some parts of San Diego and most of the inland/kinda rural areas.